Robert Ludlum
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.Collection: Experience
I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.Collection: Computers
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.
Life is extremely complicated.
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller.
The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.Collection: Jewels
You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.Collection: Way
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.Collection: President Snow
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!Collection: Blessed
There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.Collection: Thinking
Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.Collection: Games
Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hatesCollection: Hate
It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.Collection: Struggle
It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.Collection: Love You
The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.Collection: World
What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.Collection: Men
Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.Collection: Believe
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.Collection: Pain
...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.Collection: Summer
A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.Collection: Men
I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?Collection: Life
Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.Collection: Emotion
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.Collection: Lying
I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!Collection: Vegetables
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)Collection: Arrogance
You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.Collection: Moving
He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.Collection: Smart
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.Collection: Panic
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser AntillesCollection: Beach
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.Collection: Men
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.Collection: Feel Better
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaningCollection: Powerful